Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] fix Mac OS X build

[richo]

On 28/01/14 13:58 -0600, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > From: Jim Ursetto <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] fix Mac OS X build
> > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:10:53 -0600
> >
> > > Do you mean, why isn't it in the README for Chicken?
> >
> > Yes, that's what I meant.
> >
> > I think it is a recent change, prior to XCode 5 AFAIK the shims were always 
> > installed in /usr/bin automatically.
> >
> > Not in Xcode4, as I'm quite sure, since I had quite some trouble figuring out 
> > the
> > correct locations.
>
> That is possible.  I never had to do anything special with XCode 4 as far as I 
> remember; the binaries were always in /usr/bin.

As of Mavericks, /usr/bin/{clang,gcc,git,...} is a shim that invokes xcrun 
(which
is responsible for looking up the tools you've selected with xcode-select),
but also for bringing up a "Would you like to install dev tools" if you don't
already have them.

The upshot is that getting the dev tools installed is pretty painless, the
downside is that any check along the lines of "which ${tool}" will give you
false positives, and better, trying to invoke the tools in an automated
fashion will burst into flames because it'll bring up a dialogue if there's a
windowserver attached and then block forever.

richo

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